Unable to load CRL

[Radha krishna Meduri -X (radmedur - HCL at Cisco)]

Hello
 
I am not able to load the crl in text format and I am getting following
error while issuing following command "openssl crl -in abcd.crl -text"
 
unable to load CRL
28950:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start
line:pem_lib.c:642:Expecting: X509 CRL
 
Any idea what could be issue?
 
Thanks
Radhakrishna.